Soldiers Cove
The early settlers brought to WA by Thomas Peel had a difficult first few years and by 1830 had started to take up land around the shores of the Peel Inlet where Governor Stirling had reserved the townsite of Peel Town - later to become Mandurah. Selecting plots of land in Dense bush, they began building one room cottages of wattle and daub, with thatched roofs.
While the settlers worked to clear their land they were forced to keep watch for hostile natives, who speared the stock and fired the bush. So terrified were the settlers of an attack that a lieutenant and six soldiers were stationed in the tiny settlement for their protection. They lived in barracks close to the estuary in what is now known as Soldiers Cove. By September 1830 there were 14 soldiers stationed at the baracks.
There are no remains of the baracks today and the foreshore area is parkland with a well used pathway that leads up to the centre of Mandurah. A number of private jetties jut out into the shallow waters of the estuary. The "cove" is created by a spit of low lying land coming around from the south such that the opening is to the seaward end. The spit is submersed by high tides.
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Soldiers Cove Foreshore
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Sources : "Mandurah - Water Under the Bridge" by Jill Burgess 1988 & Mandurah Community Museum Peel Family fact sheet.
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